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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
Does this smack of magic to you? Because allow me to inform you, my handsome young prince, that this be not enchantment – it be work!" With that I hurled my slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. {I did not.} Marshalling what little dignity I yet possessed, I stomped down the corridor – challenging indeed with one shoe – and around the corner.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
With that, I hurled the slipper at him, not caring if I caused his decapitation. {I did not.} Marshaling what little dignity I yet possessed, I stomped down the corridor - challenging indeed with one shoe - and around the corner. I lay awake for hours. The prince had no right, not one, to indict me so, and if I had held the slightest hope of the book's assistance, I would have climbed at once to my wizard room for a spell with which to punish him. Death, perhaps, or humiliation. A croaking frog would be nice, particularly a frog that retained Florian's dark eyes. I should keep it in a box and poke it occasionally with a stick; that would be satisfying indeed."
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
Better I would have been at pulling parsnips out of my nose than charming any man, even if I so desired it, even if I quadrupled my studies in her unique curriculum.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
The situation collapsed completely at dinner one September evening. Perhaps it was the full moon that drove me to madness, or the gnawing, relentless emptiness of my heart. Whatever the trigger, the powder had been well packed, and my explosion, though shocking, was not altogether unexpected.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
A croaking frog would be nice, particularly a frog that retained Florian's dark eyes. I should keep it in a box and poke it occasionally with a stick; that would be satisfying indeed.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
With time, when I was very old and in my twenties, I might find a man to love, not one forced upon me…
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
Night soil oozed onto my cloak, and I wondered why all my adventures involved foul odour. Why could I not for once frolic in a meadow of flowers, or escape in a hamper of fresh laundry? No, I must endure night soil and prison cells and unwashed soldiers…
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
I trust you are enjoying your stay in our castle?" I asked at last. "Would that I were, Your Highness. But I am afraid my sleep last night was quite troubled. This morning I identified the source of my bruises" – here he reached into a pocket of his waistcoat – "as a pea that had been tucked beneath my mattress.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
The day of the ball was spent preparing me much as one prepares a goose for Christmas, with the same ultimate effect.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
Finally I halted, my cloak soiled with grease and jam. Why was it that jam always coated me so?
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
I could not help but notice that in this regard the book, inanimate though it was, cared more for my welfare than any human in the castle.
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock _ Princess Ben
No matter how I prayed, no fairy godmother appeared. No elf or leprechaun or world-weary wizard materialised to provide the secret weapon against my foe. I remained alone in a mouse-infested cell, empty but for a pallet and the nightdress into which I now had to struggle.
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